COMPARE trial results demonstrate higher efficacy of XIENCE V stent system

Late-breaking data presented today from the COMPARE trial demonstrated that Abbott's (NYSE: ABT) market-leading XIENCE V(R) Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System demonstrated significantly better outcomes in key safety and efficacy measures compared to the TAXUS(R) Liberte Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System (TAXUS). At one year, XIENCE V demonstrated a significantly lower incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) compared to TAXUS (6.2% XIENCE V vs. 9.1% TAXUS,s primary endpoint, which is a composite of all death, non-fatal heart attack (myocardial infarction) and target vessel revascularization (TVR). Additionally, XIENCE V demonstrated a significantly lower rate of stent thrombosis compared to TAXUS (0.7% XIENCE V vs. 2.6% TAXUS,>

The results from the COMPARE trial were presented by Peter Smits, M.D., of Maasstad Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, during the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in San Francisco.

"The COMPARE trial, which studied a real-world, complex patient population, reaffirms what we saw in SPIRIT IV earlier today and what we've seen throughout our SPIRIT family of trials - with XIENCE V showing consistent, outstanding performance compared to TAXUS, whether it's TAXUS Express in SPIRIT IV or now TAXUS Liberte in the investigator-initiated study COMPARE," said John Capek, Ph.D., executive vice president, Medical Devices, Abbott.